Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, 明天，将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员， who have been jailed for staging what they described as a polit...
Whatever happened to the silly season? 今年的新闻饥荒期是怎么回事？ You know, that time of the year when the wisdom of the 1st century poet Horace is adopted by news editors, 新闻饥荒期，众所周知，就是每年记者们对公元...
It's not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. There's a rather strange story in the Christian gospels which might be of...
Newspaper obituaries are a useful window onto history and reading accounts of the life of the late politician Alf Morris this week reminded me just how different Britain was 50 years ago before Morris and fellow MP Jack Ashley championed the disabled...
The original Olympic Games were far from being a meaningless tribute to ancient pagan Gods, Zeus and his many relations. The ancient Greeks can still help us understand what has been happening over these last two weeks, if we shake their genuine insi...
Being here in Edinburgh on the opening day of the International Book Festival feels like the perfect place to celebrate words and stories, 在国际图书节开幕的这天，在爱丁堡歌颂语言和小说是再适合不过的了， especially as...
Everyone loves a bargain, as those restaurant chains which offer you special all you can eat deals for a fixed price know all too well. In Pakistan a pizza company had been doing a roaring trade during the Muslim month of fasting. Families who were r...
Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. Many years work and more than a billion pounds of investment have come to naught, to the...
The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, 一个成年女子躺在地板上，她的手腕被...
There was just a hint in Stephen Hester's interview on this programme yesterday that the banking sector has finally run out of fig leaves. To his credit, the Royal Bank of Scotland boss certainly used honest language. He talked about remodelling the...
When I'm sitting in the Multi-faith Centre at the Athlete's Village I can look around at the diverse representation of humanity I am with. We are men and women, younger and older from almost every continent. Some are very fit world class athletes and...
The spirit of the late Sir Jimmy Savile was alive and well in the Savile Hall in Leeds two days ago when personal items were sold to benefit his favourite charities. In a 12-hour sale over 350 items raised ￡330,000 for charity. Rolex and Rolls-Royc...
The government and the Labour Party disagreed yesterday about what sort of enquiry there should be into the Libor scandal, but they both agreed there're needs to be such an enquiry. 政府和工党昨日就对对伦敦银行同业拆放利率丑闻进行...
A former cabinet minister once infamously described the homeless as the people you step over when you're coming out of the opera. 一位前内阁部长曾可耻地把无家可归的人形容成被走出歌剧院的观众从身上跨过的人。 As re...
Two weeks ago while at a soccer match in Houston, the woman beside me said she was in London last year and the Olympics will be a mess, or at least that was a polite paraphrase. It had been clear from my pink freckled skin and my lack of enthusiasm f...
